No chocs? :o
What are the two switches in the middle?
Yeah I couldn’t find pictures and they do look like the Logitech switches. But according to op it’s apparently alps.
Alps clone*
Not made by alps. Tai Hao apc switches are to alps what Gateron switches are to cherry MX
Cherry MX black and Tai Hao APC blue (an alps clone still in production pretty much unchanged since the late 80s as far as I can tell)
I’m apparently the archeologist over here with my Model M and its buckling springs.
They are right though. Check between the barrel plate and the metal back plate. Model Ms use a trio of membranes to detect key strokes. It is part of why they sound so much deeper, more robust, and less pingy than model Fs. Model Ms are membrane keyboards and that is a good thing.
Model M is another survivor of the mass extinction but since the switches aren’t discreet it was hard to put it in the image. Great boards!
Lmao, I wouldn’t want to share a room with someone else with one.
For anyone not in the know, when I said discreet I meant modular switches like MX or alps. Buckling springs all share a common barrel plate and sending assembly. It is why you can’t just have a single loose buckling spring switch really.
Has anyone attempted to draw the Victorian Era corollary to this subculture? Don’t misconstrue, I am a member too, and I enjoyed a chuckle, gazing from over top my own personal click/clacker. But also, I pondered if 150 years ago something similar occurred in perhaps the shoehorn community. Know what I mean?
we’re due for another extinction. never cherry mx again.